The Decline of the Roman Republic, Volume 1Bell & Daldy, 1864 |
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... mean , must follow the narrative and share the toil by reading carefully what the historian has written with pains . To study a history well is a work of labour . Those who expect to know something of Roman history by reading fine ...
... mean , must follow the narrative and share the toil by reading carefully what the historian has written with pains . To study a history well is a work of labour . Those who expect to know something of Roman history by reading fine ...
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... mean time we may labour , each as he best can , to prepare the way for that which we cannot do ourselves . Roman history will instruct a careful reader , if he will be content to follow a writer who has done his best to establish the ...
... mean time we may labour , each as he best can , to prepare the way for that which we cannot do ourselves . Roman history will instruct a careful reader , if he will be content to follow a writer who has done his best to establish the ...
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... means which must be used . Such considerations are foreign to the busi- ness , which is to show that certain means must be used to keep power if you would keep it ; and that is the whole . matter of Machiavelli's treatise . But if any ...
... means which must be used . Such considerations are foreign to the busi- ness , which is to show that certain means must be used to keep power if you would keep it ; and that is the whole . matter of Machiavelli's treatise . But if any ...
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... used the popular vote as means of seeking their own profit - The disorders of the Roman Commonwealth , its decline and ruin - The opinions of Poly- bius and Machiavelli 292 CHAPTER XXI . GALLIA . B.C. 122 , 121 . xxii CONTENTS .
... used the popular vote as means of seeking their own profit - The disorders of the Roman Commonwealth , its decline and ruin - The opinions of Poly- bius and Machiavelli 292 CHAPTER XXI . GALLIA . B.C. 122 , 121 . xxii CONTENTS .
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... means the plebeians and the nobility , for the Senate was in a sense the representative of the nobility , had administered the state in peace and harmony , that there was no strife among the citizens for place and power , and that fear ...
... means the plebeians and the nobility , for the Senate was in a sense the representative of the nobility , had administered the state in peace and harmony , that there was no strife among the citizens for place and power , and that fear ...
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